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, JAMES Bmsms Improved Acg'ustable I Oil C up.

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UNITED Sr "res 1 T QFFICE.

JAMES BURSON, OF YATES CITY, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TOHENRY WHITALL.

IMPROVEMENT 5N OIL-CANS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,194, dated August22, 1871.

To all whom it may. concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES BURSON, of Yates City, in the county of Knoxand State of Illinois, have made new and useful Improvements in Oil-Gups for J ournal-Bearings and other parts of Machinery; and I dodeclare the following to be a full ,clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to theletters of reference marked thereon,in which Figure 1 is a sectionalelevation of the saidimproved oil-cup. Fig. 2 shows a sponge-holder intwo sections and an elevation of an adjuster for the sponge-holder andFig. 3 is a diagram of the spon ge-holder in an incomplete state,showing one mode of constructing it.

I take an ordinary spring-bottom oilcan, H, or any other vessel ofsuitable shape having a nozzle suited to support it in an invertedposition on the cap of a journal-bearing, or a cross-head, or the like,by fitting in the oil-hole of the cap or other thing; and I fit asponge-stopper or regu- Iator, S, in the said nozzle at the base, asshown, having a screw-threaded adjuster, S, extending up through thebottom of the cup, or a screw plug, 0, therein. This regulator ispressed into the nozzle more or less according to the amount of oilrequired to be delivered in a given time. The stopper or regulator mayconsist of any convenient metal holder for the sponge; but a simple wayof constructing such holders will be in striking out a piece of sheetmetal in the form represented in Fig. 3, then bending it into the formrepresented by the two sectional. figures in Fig. 2, and then screwingthe top to the plate P, swiveled to the lower end of screw S, as clearlyindicated, thus forming a holder, to which the sponge may be veryreadily and securely connected.

I do not limit myself to the employment of sponge for the regulator, forcloth and wool and some other substances will answer very well.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The improved oil-cup for machinery, consist-

